10 July 2019, Rome

H2020 Societal Challenge 1 ICT in Health and Care 2020 topics

Funding Opportunities

Monika Lanzenberger

European CommissionDG CONNECT, H3 – eHealth,

Wellbeing and Ageing

CALL – Digital transformation in Health and Care

Connected Digital Single Market

European Cloud Initiative

European Free Flow of Data initiative

Silver Economy initiative

Priority 6

• Better access to healthcare and sustainability of health and care systems

• To empower the participation of citizens and facilitate the transformation of health and care services to more digitised, person-centred and community-based care models

• eHealth and mHealth

• ICT for Active and Healthy Ageing

IMPACT: to maximise the potential of the digital economy in the health and care sectors

POLICY DRIVERS:

SC1-DTH-02-2020: Personalised early risk prediction, prevention and intervention based on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data technologies

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Scope• Innovative ICT solutions through data, data analytics, advanced

or novel digital technologies, services, products, organisationalchanges (also including citizens data ownership and increasing health literacy)

• Validation and active stakeholder engagement in the design• Personalised early risk prediction, prevention and intervention

approaches and better understanding of disease symptoms and effects and behavioural changes

• Addressing the needs of individuals, improving the uptake of preventive approaches and leading to more effective health and care systems

Practical aspectsResearch and Innovation action, 32 M€ - 4-6 M€/proposal

Call 2. Digital transformation in Health and Care

SC1-DTH-04-2020: International cooperation in smart living environments for ageing people

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Scope• Develop and validate new solutions that provide personalised

advice, guidance and follow-up by smart living environments for ageing people, supporting independent active and healthy lifestyles, fostering social participation and avoiding social exclusion (considering ethics, privacy, security and regulatory aspects, gender issues),

• Building on active user engagement• Validation in realistic test sites (eg. home or care centres)• Collaboration with Japan (standardisation)• Collaboration with Canada (Transitions in Care Initiative)

Practical aspectsResearch and Innovation action, 8 M€ - 2-4 M€/proposalCanadian Partnering Tool will be available:http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/51567.html (English)http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/f/51567.html (French)

SC1-DTH-06-2020: Accelerating the uptake of computer simulations for testing medicines and medical devices

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Scope• Develop innovative scientific and technological computer

modelling solutions for testing medicines and/or medical devices based on multidisciplinary research

• Also explore and inform of the reasons for failure and suggest improvements

• Measures for validation of the in-silico results• Benefit for human health, environment and animal welfare

should be analysed• Engagement with regulators and consideration of the

regulatory framework

Practical aspectsResearch and Innovation action, 32 M€ - 6-8 M€/proposal

SC1-DTH-14-2020: Pre-commercial Procurement for Digital Health and Care Solutions

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Scope• Support health and care service provider to procure the development of

digital services, facilitating the transition to integrated care models across health and social services and country-specific cross-institutional set-ups

• Address key challenges such as patient empowerment, self-management, patient safety, patient involvement, chronic disease management, diagnosing, hospital logistics, skills and independent living by ICT-based solutions such as, e-Health, telemedicine, and mHealth - to be defined through the market consultation process, validation of benefits

• Driven by clearly identified user needs and public and/or private procurers

• Interoperable solutions based on open platforms, best practices and standardisation initiatives

• Facilitate the early adoption and transferability • Compliance with ethical standards, patients’ rights and privacy protectionPractical aspectsPre-Commercial Procurement - 9 M€ - 4-5M€/proposal

SC1-HCC-06-2020: Coordination and Support to better data and secure cross-border digital infrastructures building on European capacities for genomics and personalised medicine

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Scope• Develop coordination mechanisms for sharing expertise and

securely linking genomic and other health data (e.g. electronic health records, registries) together with national initiatives building on project results and stakeholder activities taking into account legal and ethical requirements

• Identify and facilitate the exchange of best practices between relevant R&I projects, initiatives and other stakeholders

• Provide overview of relevant standards for data quality, security, interoperability, privacy and ethics, concept for sustainability

• Identify critical elements for transparent governance of a digital infrastructure enabling the cross-border linking of genomic and other health data in Europe

Practical aspectsCoordination and Support Action, 4 M€ - up to 4 M€/proposal

SC1-HCC-07-2020: Support for European eHealth Interoperability roadmap for deployment

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Scope• Support deployment and monitoring of eHealth interoperability in

real life interoperable digital platforms and solutions for use by citizens, researchers, health services and the workforce across border

• For significant number of citizens in several Member States accessing and providing their own health data

• Consider interoperability of EHR across national borders, empowered European citizen, compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation, Network and Information Systems Directive, ethics and legal issues

• Build on the Commission Recommendation on the European EHR exchange format and relevant activities of the eHealth Network

Practical aspectsCoordination and Support Action, 3 M€ - up to 3 M€/proposal

SC1-HCC-08-2020: Scaling up innovation for active and healthy ageing

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Scope• Facilitate further uptake by actively involving partners from the

European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy ageing as well as other relevant stakeholder groups and R&I projects, at European, national and regional levels

• Focus on successful support to supply and demand sides (also facilitating regular exchanges) in implementing scaling up strategies and large-scale deployment (incl. twinning programmes, capacity building for local and regional authorities)

• Long-term investment strategy leveraging and blending funding sources from European, national and/or regional programmes/promotional banks and private investments, also involving new players

• Recommendations or guidelines for public health authorities • Fields: mHealth solutions for active and healthy ageing, smart age-

friendly homes and independent living, chronic disease managementPractical aspectsCoordination and Support Action, 2 M€ - 1.5-2M€/proposal

SC1-HCC-09-2020: Supporting deployment of eHealth in low and lower middle income countries in Africa for better health outcomes

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Scope• Support the coordination of a registry of relevant existing e-Health

solutions with their services and potential for low and lower middle income African countries or regions

• Roadmap and strategic implementation plans building on the requirements of end-user communities and policy makers

• Take into account national and regional policies and (best) practices regarding health and care services and health infrastructures, incl. lessons learned from existing eHealth policies and programmes at all levels of the health system

• Build on relevant existing and emerging initiatives and capacities in Europe and Africa for future cooperation and deployment

• Consideration of ethics and data protection of health data, socio-economic and gender issues and involvement of relevant stakeholders

Practical aspectsCoordination and Support Action, 2 M€ - 1.5-2 M€/proposalCountries eligible for funding: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/other/wp/2018-2020/annexes/h2020-wp1820-annex-a-countries-rules_en.pdf

CALL – Trusted digital solutions and Cybersecurity in Health and Care

Connected Digital Single Market

Big Data in healthcare

European Data Protection Regulation

Priority 7

• Multidisciplinary technologies and solutions in health and care with a focus on cybersecurity

• Secure and user-driven ICT-based solutions in early riskdetection and interventions

• Aggregation of a variety of new and existing data sources

FOCUS AREAS

• Digitising and transforming European industry and services• Boosting the effectiveness of the Security Union

POLICY DRIVERS :

DT-TDS-04-2020: AI for Genomics and PersonalisedMedicine

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Scope• Demonstrate the potential and benefits of AI technologies for

advancing research and personalised medicine through the linking of relevant genomics data and repositories, according to adequate organisational, regulatory, security, ethical and technical requirements

• Develop and test AI solutions for linking genomics repositories across the EU, including banks of "-omics" and health related data, biobanks and other registries - supporting clinical research, decision making, diagnostic capacity in personalised medicine

• Potential to build a large-scale distributed repository of relevant genomic data and other -omics and medical data for AI solutions

• compliance with the relevant privacy, cybersecurity, ethical and legal rules (incl. exchange of cross-border data)

Practical aspectsResearch and Innovation action, 35 M€ – up to 10 M€/proposal

DT-TDS-05-2020: AI for Health Imaging

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Scope AI tools and analytics for prevention, prediction and treatment of

the most common forms of cancer while providing solutions to securely share health images across Europe

Set up and contribute to populate a large interoperable repository of health images enabling the development, testing and validation of AI–based health imaging solutions to improve diagnosis, disease prediction and follow-up

High quality, interoperable, anonymised or pseudo-anonymised data sets of annotated cases, based on data donorship, using open APIs

Ethics, security requirements and data protection legislation Evidence establishing the AI tools safety, validity, reproducibility,

usability, reliability and usefulness for better health outcomes Explain reasoning behind AI-based conclusions and

recommendations, possible failures and inaccuraciesPractical aspectsResearch and Innovation action, 35 M€ – 8-10 M€/proposal

Call Deadlines

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BHC + HCO + DTH-12 and HCC-10 call topics

Calls open: 4 July 2019Calls close: 7 April 2020

ExceptionsBHC-08, BHC-24-, BHC-28 & DTH-13-2020

Two Stage callCall open: 4 July 2019

1st stage closes: 24 September 20192nd stage closes: 7 April 2020

Other DTH, HCC & TDS-04 topicsCalls open: 19 November 2019

Calls close: 22 April 2020

Better Health and care, economic growth and

sustainable health systems

Digital transformation in Health & Care

Trusted digital solutions and Cybersecurity in Health & Care

ExceptionsHCC-06, HCC-07 & TDS-05Call open: 9 July 2019

Closes: 13 November 2019

DT-ICT-12-2020: AI for the smart hospital of the future

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Scope Pilot demonstrators that deliver innovative AI-based solutions in health and care

settings (e.g. hospital, primary care facility or care home) Support clinical diagnosis and treatment, etc. carried out with clinical outcomes

comparable to human delivered procedures and with comparable results May address any aspect of health facility operations across their range of

functions, such as diagnostics, treatments, logistical aspects, measured against health and care metrics

Consider wider dimensions such as impact on resources, staff training and alignment with existing practice

Build AI-based systems that combine digital and physical services that support individualised and integrated care solutions in care facilities

Integrate health and care partners in the design of the pilots At scale” benefits in efficiency or cost reduction and demonstrate the

effectiveness of any novel service models in providing economic justification for scale-up investment

Address privacy and cybersecurity issues Align with actions of DT-ICT-02-2018: Robotics -Digital Innovation HubsPractical aspectsInnovation action, 40 M€ – 7-10 M€/proposal, submission dealine: 22 Apr 2020

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